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<DIV>This is actually often&nbsp;true&nbsp;in oral interviews,&nbsp;that people
will abbreviate information, and shorten the distance between themselves and the
source (generationally speaking).&nbsp; It's human nature, not intentionally
lying.&nbsp; It's good story telling.</DIV>
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href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend2.htm">http://people.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend2.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>But any good interviewer knows how to get around this kind of thing, and
begin to prove or disprove it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Note that sometimes it will be friend saying "friend of a friend of
mine".&nbsp; Other times they'll simply drop one generation making it "friend of
mine".&nbsp; As the article says it's not lying, it's just wanting to be closer
to the story, a near participant.&nbsp; Or sometimes because the friend believes
it happened to someone else, it becomes "it happened to me", dropping two links
in the chain.</DIV>
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<DIV>And then chances are it will remain "friend of a friend".&nbsp; I bet
someone on the list will say "a friend of a guy on the APG list" sent money
(dropping one of the generations).</DIV>
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<DIV>as I said, it's one of the pitfalls any interviewer has to watch out for
(grandparents become the source when they actually heard it from their
grandparents, and so on)</DIV>
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<DIV>Larry</DIV></BODY></HTML>